The Albany City Council Wednesday turned down a permit that would have allowed an outpatient drug and alcohol treatment center to operate in the historic Sternberg House, 506 Ferry St. S.W.
The council voted to uphold the city’s planning commission, which had denied the applicants’ request for a conditional use permit in May.
The Sternberg House, at the southwest corner of Fifth Avenue and Ferry Street and kitty-corner from the Linn County Courthouse, was built in 1868, according to Albany’s inventory of historic buildings. It was remodeled in the 1920s, according to county tax records…